Isle of Man

Constituent / territory of United Kingdom.

EuropeCapital city: DouglasCapital metro: Douglas
2026 population
85K
Rank #211 globally
Area
572 km² (221 sq mi)
Metros tracked
1
99% of population in metros
Composite score
0.3
Rank #221 globally

population: Official estimate (1 Apr 2025) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 1 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography1 metro

Isle of Man metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 1 tracked metro
1 metros
#2506Douglas★ Capital▲ Largest
0.3
🗂️ Sheadings

6 entries listed under Isle of Man. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

6 total
📋 At a glance
Official languages
English, Manx
Legislature
Tynwald
Demonym
Manx
Time zone
UTC±00:00
Driving side
Left
Calling code
+44
Internet TLD
.im
ISO 3166
IM
Established
1765
Highest point
Snaefell (621 m (2,037 ft))
National anthem
Arrane Ashoonagh Vannin

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
GDP
$7.6B
World Bank · 2023
GDP per capita
$90.0k
World Bank · 2023
GNI/capita (Atlas)
$87.0k
World Bank · 2023
Life expectancy
81.1 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
45.7 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
52%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
-0.0%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
148/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
51.9%
World Bank · 2024

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#210 · 0.0%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Isle of Man · share of world power, 1991–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
84k
#203 in the world
Since 1800
3.58×
from 24k
Peak
2011
84k
Share of world
0.00%
0.00% in 1800
21k42k63k84k18001850190019502000
Isle of Man · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Isle of Man: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak
2011
84k; already passed
2050
78k
95% band 44k to 128k
2100
58k
95% band 10k to 410k
2100 against 2025
0.69×
median falling from 2024
Deaths outnumber births
since 2015
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
108k215k323k430k1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
887 born · 813 died · +190 net migration
TFR 2.41 · life expectancy 63.1 · median age 37.8
1960
692 born · 826 died · -730 net migration
TFR 2.68 · life expectancy 64.6 · median age 42.2
1970
764 born · 948 died · +1k net migration
TFR 2.57 · life expectancy 65.7 · median age 41.4
1980
772 born · 1k died · +1k net migration
TFR 1.95 · life expectancy 68.4 · median age 37.5
1990
897 born · 1k died · +1k net migration
TFR 1.96 · life expectancy 71.8 · median age 38.3
2000
945 born · 964 died · +841 net migration
TFR 1.87 · life expectancy 74.8 · median age 38.4
2010
949 born · 796 died · +778 net migration
TFR 1.93 · life expectancy 79.6 · median age 41.3
2020
730 born · 877 died · +219 net migration
TFR 1.58 · life expectancy 80.6 · median age 45.1
Show all 16 decades
2030
676 born · 966 died · +145 net migration
TFR 1.51 · life expectancy 82.0 · median age 47.1
2040
692 born · 1k died · +117 net migration
TFR 1.52 · life expectancy 83.5 · median age 48.3
2050
608 born · 1k died · +66 net migration
TFR 1.54 · life expectancy 84.8 · median age 48.7
2060
564 born · 1k died · +60 net migration
TFR 1.55 · life expectancy 86.0 · median age 49.7
2070
547 born · 990 died · +59 net migration
TFR 1.56 · life expectancy 87.2 · median age 51.0
2080
502 born · 902 died · +55 net migration
TFR 1.57 · life expectancy 88.3 · median age 51.2
2090
458 born · 864 died · +36 net migration
TFR 1.58 · life expectancy 89.3 · median age 51.9
2100
438 born · 837 died · +29 net migration
TFR 1.58 · life expectancy 90.4 · median age 52.7

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Isle of Man on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.